Nicolas Poussin, 1640 - Landscape with Saint John on Patmos - fine art print

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Although French by birth and training, Nicolas Poussin spent most of his career in Rome, immersed in the study of ancient art, where he painted classically inspired works for an educated elite. His art has long been considered the embodiment of the ideals of seventeenth-century classicism. In this painting, Saint John, one of the four Evangelists who wrote the Gospels of the New Testament, reclines beside his attribute, the eagle. He is here depicted as a powerful old man, presumably after retiring to the Greek island of Patmos to write his gospel and the book of Revelation at the end of his life. To suggest the vanished glory of the ancient world, Poussin carefully constructed an idealized setting for the saint, complete with an obelisk, a temple, and column fragments. Man-made and natural forms were adjusted according to principles of geometry and logic to convey the measured order of the scene. Even the profile view of Saint John is in harmony with the classical landscape. This painting may have been part of a projected series on the four Evangelists—in addition to this work, Poussin completed a companion, Landscape with Saint Matthew (1640; Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

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In 1640 Nicolas Poussin created the baroque work of art "Landscape with Saint John on Patmos". The over 380 years old original version was made with the size: 100,3 × 136,4 cm (39 1/2 × 53 5/8 in). Oil on canvas was applied by the painter as the medium of the artwork. This piece of art is included in the Art Institute Chicago's digital art collection, which is one of the world’s great art museums, housing a collection that spans centuries and the globe. With courtesy of: Art Institute Chicago (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: A. A. Munger Collection. What is more, the alignment is in landscape format and has a ratio of 4 : 3, which implies that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter Nicolas Poussin was a European artist from France, whose artistic style was mainly Baroque. The artist was born in 1594 in Les Andelys, Normandie, France and died at the age of 71 in the year 1665 in Rome, Roma province, Lazio, Italy.

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